Obit of Rose, Flora Widner - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 09 Jan 2014 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Heart Cemetery--Booker TX Surnames: Rose, Widner, Rives, Fillingim, Sell, Andler, Bynum Originally posted at: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.rogermills/8044/mb.ashx Funeral services for Flora Rose, age 87, were Thursday, September 14, 1972, at 2:00 p.m. in the Gageby Church. The Rev. Donald Bynum, The Reverend William Fillingim and the Reverend Sandford Cole officiated. Interment was in Booker, Texas under the direction of The Good Samaritan Funeral Service. Flora Rose was born March 27, 1885, near Coldwater, Kansas, to Mr. and Mrs. John Widner. She moved with her parents in a covered wagon to North Texas. They settled on a farm in Lipscomb County where she grew to womanhood and attended the local school. She taught school in Lipscomb County. She married William Rose on August 28, 1910, in Lipscomb County. They made their home in the Booker Community. He passed away in 1946. After his passing, she made her home near Briscoe. She has resided in a Nursing Home in Shamrock for the past year. Mrs. Rose passed away in theed Shamrock General Hospital on September 11, 1972. Survivors are: Two sons, Virgil Rose, of Midwest City, Oklahoma and Houston Rose, of Piere, South Dakota; eight daughters, Mrs. Elmo Rives of Parkdale, Oregon, Mrs. Vea Fillingim, of Wheeler, Texas, Mrs. Faye Sell, of Claremore, Oklahoma, Mrs. Elton Fillingim of Tucso, Arizona, Mrs. Gay Andler of Decatur, Alabama, Mrs. Eda Bynum, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri; Thirty-six grandchildren; and twenty-four great grandchildren. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 21-Aug-1972 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html